Keep Music Live - Latest Gigs In And Around Melbourne

The following information has been kindly supplied by Dom Barbuto of the Melbourne Chapter of the Debonairs.

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Delta Blues singer / songwriter Ivan Zar with 3CR's Blues journalist and presenter Werner Martin. Photograph © pationpics.com
I had the opportunity of filming a live to air interview at 3CR between Blues journalist / presenter Werner Martin and visiting Blues legend Ivan Zar.

Ivan painted a picture through word and song about his experiences touring indigenous communities throughout the Kimberley over a 20 year period. Fascinating to say the least. And I will present that footage in the not too distant future for you viewing pleasure.

In the interim, I would like to inform our readers about some gigs that are coming up later this week where you can catch Blues legend Ivan Zar performing along with Melbourne sensation Ezra Lee.



COMING GIGS:
Ezra Lee & Rocking Ray with special guest Blues legend Ivan Zar

The Drunken Poets
Thurs. 26 Feb. 2016 65 Peel Street, Melbourne 8 - 10 pm ...

20 Artists
Yarra Hotel Abbotsford
Friday November 13th @ 8pm free entry!


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Performing Sunday 1st November 2015 at The Retreat Hotel, 280 Sydney Road, Brunswick between 5 – 7pm.
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Life is full of inspirational stories, and causes to support those stories. This is but one of those worthy causes but it is one that the Toorak Times fully supports.
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‘I’m on fire’ single launch
Live at MEMO Music Hall – 90 Acland Street St Kilda
Saturday 24 October, 2015
Doors open 8pm
Tickets: $18 – $25 @trybooking or MEMO Music Hall
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Dates: Six performances: 29 Oct. – 7 Nov. 2015
Location: Melba Spiegeltent – 35 Johnston St Collingwood
Tickets: $35 to $55 – group discounts apply
Information & bookings: www.audreypopmusical.com
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By Faye Depasquale titled ‘Sturts Desert Peas’

The Toorak Village Art Walk runs for 4 weeks from Monday 19 October until Sunday 15 November 2015. The Toorak Village Traders Association has invited 35 artists to showcase original paintings, drawings and mixed media in the shop windows of Toorak Village businesses.
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Part of 2015 Melbourne Fringe festival

Performances: Wed. 30 Sept., Thurs. 1 Oct., Fri. 2 Oct. 2015, Sat. 3 Oct., Sun. 4 Oct.

Location: The Melba Spiegeltent – 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood.

Showtime: 8pm

For world class musicianship and titillating burlesque make a point of catching Doc Whites’s Lowdown Hokum Orchestra and Burlesque Revue at the Melba Spiegeltent situated at 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood performing as part of the 2015 Fringe Festival.
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The following information has been kindly supplied by Dom Barbuto of the Melbourne Chapter of the Debonairs.
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SELL OUT SHOWS last year and a plethora of RAVE REVIEWS we are pretty damn excited to have the uber talented JOHN WATERS and STEWART D’ARRIETTA at MEMO THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 3PM, SEPT 27th, to perform their theatrical interpretation of the JOHN LENNON STORY.
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Staged by William Mora under the Patronage of Georges Mora.

Laughter in The Art Gallery!, not pretentious but pissingly fractured and funny! - John Pinder [RIP].

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Tim Mckew at St Kilda's Tolarno Galleries in 1979 image by Julie Higginbotham.

I first met with Tim Mckew for a one on one, in his locale at the Abbotsford Convent the other day.

I had heard about his forth coming Dadaist performance art show, “Come Down With Us” running over three nights in August 2015 on Friday 28, Saturday 29 and Sunday 30, between 6 – 8pm at the William Mora Galleries, and after doing my research the night before, I was very interested to meet the man.

I discovered thatTim Mckew is a vibrant singer, songwriter, playwright and producer, whose successful career has spanned over five decades in show business and the arts, encompassing TV, theatre, radio and cabaret.

Throughout his extensive career he has performed on stage with the likes of Nick Cave, Paul Kelly and Germany’s Nina Hagen to name a few.

He describes “Come Down With Us” as a Homage to his Dadaist shows that were held at St Kilda’s...

ROB ZABRECKY, International Guest of the Melbourne Magic Festival, mesmerized his audience with virtuosic skill in his one-man show ‘Turn on the Dark with Zabrecky’.

From the moment he stalked with hypnotic fleetness of foot to centre stage and performed optical illusions on his head, spectators were gripped by the uncanny sense that all odds were being expertly scrambled in the meshes of Zabrecky’s grouchy mesmerist persona.

One man was required to nurse a smallish cardboard box with breathing holes.

Another in an outsize dunce’s cap was consigned to the corner upon losing a mysteriouly rigged quiz show.

Introducing the concept of a 25-second intermission to the Melbourne stage, Zabrecky paused for a cup of tea – which he pronounced “perfect!” – before continuing to amaze and enthrall with some up-to-the-minute dancing, to wild applause.



Turn on the Dark with Zabrecky’ will feature tonight,...